James George

James George is an Emmy-winning artist and entrepreneur. He co-directed the first volumetric film CLOUDS and co-created the original volumetric capture tool, Depthkit. He is CEO and Co-Founder of Scatter, a creative company dedicated to defining the emerging language of Volumetric Filmmaking. Scatter’s first product is Depthkit, an accessible tool for volumetric video capture. Prior to founding Scatter, George was a filmmaker, new media artist and technical director. George coined the term ‘Volumetric Filmmaking’ in his 2016 essay A New Dimension in Filmmaking. Volumetric filmmaking is a new way of making visual effects and immersive media that fuses filmmaking with video games. Using 3D scans of real places and real people, VF allows creators to construct interactive augmented and virtual reality experiences from photorealistic captured reality. The first volumetric film, CLOUDS, was co-directed by James George and Jonathan Minard and premiered at Sundance in 2014. The first Depthkit software prototype was created during the production of CLOUDS. Since then, hundreds of volumetric films have been made all over the world by a growing community of artists and directors. As of 2019 Volumetric filmmaking has been recognized as an important emerging medium by the world’s largest technology and media companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Intel, WarnerMedia and Verizon.